Give us the option to choose not just where the installation goes, but where the APPDATA (thumbnails and art) go. In a moderate Plex install, I have 20 gig of thumbs and art.
Imagine my surprize when, after deliberately choosing my large storage D: for installation, my small SSDD C: drive filled right up.
I find I can't use PLEX at all with a small C: drive, just because it uses C:Users/[me]/AppData/Local/Plex/Userdata/Thumbnails
The part you let me relocate on install, the program files, take a total of 90 meg. The part you don't let me manage is at 20 gig and growing, 200 times the size of the install itself.
I believe this is a function of Windows UAC Virtualization working the way it is supposed to.
You could move the entire windows user folder or try moving the AppData "Plex Media Server" folder to, say "D:\\Plex Media Server", and then create a simlink to it with something like:
mklink /D "C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server" "D:\\Plex Media Server"
(didn't test that command, so use at your own risk)
That said, having a custom location for the Media folder could be handy.
Well that also explains why I didn't find it when I looked... I was looking in the PLAYER not the server setteings. I thought it was the player queueing up thumbnails....THANKS! I'll certainly try it.
The path indicated in the screenshot above is indeed controlled from the SERVER, for the SERVER. The various files stored there for the SERVER amount to under 6 gig in my installation.
However, the caches, images, and various bits for the MEDIA PLAYER for Windows has inflated to over 30 gig and is strangling my C: drive. And I have not yet found a setting to change the location for this on the PLAYER settings.
So my original request still stands, PLEASE make a way to not have PLEX fill up my small C: drive. And if I'm missing the setting, please help me find it. For the PLAYER.
98% of the space is taken up by C:\Users\MiniMo\AppData\Local\Plex\userdata\Thumbnails
I've tried various settings that SEEM to point here, but any change makes it lose all thumbnails in the player. No matter what part of the file section I point to, I seem only to be able to make it worse.
Move your USERS folder you will quickly find that all sorts of apps are going to use the user folder for temp disk and the default location to save stuff.
Move your USERS folder you will quickly find that all sorts of apps are going to use the user folder for temp disk and the default location to save stuff.
For closure on this item, it was discovered shortly after this thread stopped that PLEX WEB was in fact copying complete movies into the thumbnails directory, naming them as if they were thumbnails. This was cured in later WEB releases, and the damage can be fixed by looking for huge files (half a gig and larger) in the thumbnails directory, and simply deleting them.
Very old news now… but I saw this hanging… and now it’s not.
